After using Ubuntu since 7.04, I've decided to leave that distro behind. I don't like the direction that they're taking with Unity. It seems that the freedom of choice is gone. I've used Mint off an on over the years and LOVE the fact that Clem decided to base Mint on Debian and NOT having to reinstall every 6 months, is going to be awesome. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest and I look forward to enjoying Linux again. Thanks Clem and the Developers.

Last edited by skompier on Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:11 am, edited 1 time in total.

Greetings!!! I "was" one of the Alpha testers & just said my goodbyes to the Ubuntu-testing community about a week ago. Agreed on the direction that Unity is taking Ubuntu & was looking for another place to go......so here I am. I predict that we won't be the only ex-ubuntu users in the next couple of months........

"Let's nobody be dead today----Looks very bad on my report" One of my favorite lines from AVATAR Linux User# 395230

autocrosser wrote:Greetings!!! I "was" one of the Alpha testers & just said my goodbyes to the Ubuntu-testing community about a week ago. Agreed on the direction that Unity is taking Ubuntu & was looking for another place to go......so here I am. I predict that we won't be the only ex-ubuntu users in the next couple of months........

They have a good product but it's no longer something that I want to use. I'm really enjoying LMDE. I installed it 2 days ago. Very nice.

skompier wrote:They have a good product but it's no longer something that I want to use. I'm really enjoying LMDE. I installed it 2 days ago. Very nice.

Yes--I helped from 2005 to now to make Ubuntu a better product....pity that (in my opinion) Mark is taking Ubuntu the wrong way with a UI that was half-baked the last release & will most likely be 3/4 baked for 11.04. Quite a few people in the testing forum are grumbling about Unity & they only have a couple of months to fix it. I have been testing Gnome-Shell for the last couple of years & the last straw for me was when the news came down that Gnome-Shell & all the GTK3 stack were being black-listed so Unity development could take priority. Got more than a few Gnome developers a bit "unhappy". Unity is looking like a un-unifying influence.

"Let's nobody be dead today----Looks very bad on my report" One of my favorite lines from AVATAR Linux User# 395230

skompier wrote:I don't like the direction that they're taking with Unity. It seems that the freedom of choice is gone.

Just so you know, Unity is shaping up great and is getting more and more usable in the 11.04 builds. Also, GNOME 2.x will still be included alongside Unity in the default installation. Log out, select "Ubuntu Classic Desktop" from the menu, and log back in.. bam, GNOME

I'm loving LMDE (64 bit) too! I was using Mint 10 main edition but decided to try this and it gives you the great interface and features of Mint 10 along with direct debian and an rolling release..who could ask for more?